Piriformis Syndrome

Just throwing some props to Steph B. She has for at least the past two months been dealing with this horrible lower back pain and getting chiropractic treatment for it. Never has it entered her mind that she was going to be put on bed rest and have to stop working out. "I wouldn't know what to do" was her reply to the thought of having to miss a workout. Which goes to mention that she has not missed one scheduled session because of this lower back issue and has been doing modifications for most of the lower body movements. You could consider it being a super supplement to physical therapy and it's been eating her up not being able to compete with everyone on the score boards. I know for us it's comforting to know that she is recovering (slowly) from what is now known to be related to Piriformis Syndrome. It's a muscle that arises from the sacrum and passes through the sciatic foramen and attaches to the greater trochanter of the femur. It helps rotate the thigh laterally. When dealing with this injury, it's a tremendous lower back pain that shoots down your leg. Sometimes confused with sciatica.

Steph has been battling it out though and like we said before, on the road to recovery. This picture above is showing her finish the day two PT station in a time of 12:45. The PT is 30, 20, 10 Pullups, 1 max box jump (26"), and dumbell squats. What's intimidating is that she's the only one who's finishing the PT! You are awesome Steph for sticking in there and not allowing this problem take your focus off life and friends.